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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Bugai Whyoulter, Kurta-Kurta (Camel Rock), 2023

Bugai Whyoulter b. 1939

Kurta-Kurta (Camel Rock), 2023
acrylic on canvas
76 x 121 cm
23-989
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'This is daddy's ngurra (home Country, camp), mummy's ngurra.” - Bugai Whyoulter Kurta-kurta is a claypan and soak located north of Parnngurr Aboriginal community, and at the heart of the...
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"This is daddy's ngurra (home Country, camp), mummy's ngurra.”
- Bugai Whyoulter

Kurta-kurta is a claypan and soak located north of Parnngurr Aboriginal community, and at the heart of the Karlamilyi River (Rudall River) region. This site lies within Bugai’s ngurra (home Country, camp) through her mother and father, and was part of the area which she knew intimately and travelled extensively with her family in her youth. Bugai's family would regularly travel between Wanli (Warnli, Canning Stock Route Well 25), a large and culturally significant claypan), and Kurta-kurta, where they would meet with the Yates family and then travel together to Karlamilyi.

The Western Desert term ‘ngurra’ is hugely versatile in application. Broadly denoting birthplace and belonging, ngurra can refer to a body of water, a camp site, a large area of Country, or even a modern house. People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of inmate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. This knowledge is traditionally passed inter-generationally through family connections. Painting ngurra, and in so doing sharing the Jukurrpa stories and physical characteristics of that place, has today become an important means of cultural maintenance. Physical maintenance of one’s ngurra, like cultural maintenance, ensures a site’s wellbeing, and is a responsibility of the people belonging to that area.
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